There’s a version of Christianity being pushed in this country right now at the federal level, and it ain’t your grandma’s Christianity.

In this episode I sit down with researcher and writer Melissa Witte to talk about the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR): what it is, what it believes, where it came from, and how it got this close to power. Melissa walks through the history behind it, from Darby, Moody and the Scofield Bible to Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell, the televangelist era, John Hagee, and Lance Wallnau’s 7 Mountain Mandate. We also get into the Johnson Amendment, Christian Zionism, and whether the pastors behind this movement are true believers or bad actors.

If you’ve heard the term “NAR” thrown around and never knew what it meant, start here.

⏱ Chapters

• 00:00 Whose faith?
• 01:16 How Melissa started researching this
• 06:42 What does the NAR believe?
• 10:54 Billy Graham, Prohibition and Mordecai Ham
• 14:15 The vacuum Jerry Falwell filled
• 18:22 The 1967 war and end-times theology
• 20:20 Darby, Moody, Scofield and dispensationalism
• 26:00 The Late Great Planet Earth and the 1970s
• 28:30 The fall of the televangelists
• 33:05 John Hagee and Christians United for Israel
• 34:40 Lance Wallnau, Bethel and the 7 Mountain Mandate
• 38:36 The Johnson Amendment
• 41:00 Not your grandma’s Christianity
• 44:57 True believers or bad actors?
• 47:00 Chuck Baldwin and the call for pastors to speak up
• 50:05 Where to find Melissa

📚 Follow Melissa

• Substack: Charlie Kirk & the NAR series: https://melthevcl.substack.com
• X: @Villgecrazylady

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